Cash or bundle carrier



(No Model.)

T.- WILSON, Jr. CASH 03 BUNDLE CARRIER.

No. 428,194. Patented May 20, 1890.

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and catch in operative arrangement.

THOMAS VILSON, JR, OF MENANDS, NEW YORK.

CASH OR BUNDLE CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,194, dated May 20,1890.

Application filed January 2, 1890. $erial N0. 335 583- (N0 model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS WVILSON, J11, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Menands, in the county of Albany and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Cash and Bundle Carrier, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in mechanisms for carryingcash and bundles; and the objects are to provide improved means forcatching and holding the carrier and for adjusting the package-holder toinclined positions, as will be hereinafter specified.

Myinvention therefore consists in the novel construction of parts andtheir combmation, as will be hereinafter described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

I have fully illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings,wherein Figure l is a view of my improved carrier Fig. 2 is a transversesection taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail side view ofthe latches on the carrier. Fig. et is a plan view of one end of thelatches on the carrier, showing the hinged latches open in full line andas closed in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a view of the carrier and basket,the latter being also shown in dotted lines in a tipped or inclinedposition to afford convenient access thereto. Fig. (3 is a detail viewof the slotted lug on the end of the basket, and Fig. 7 is a view of thehinged latches in modified construction.

A designates the round bar, having its upper end secured to a supportingmeans X, and arranged to maintain a vertical depending position, asshown. AbO UE thIS bar is arranged oke Y, carrying friction-pulleys TVWW, bearing with their inner portions against the bar. To the inner partof the yoke Y is a staple, stem,or other fastening neans P, connected tothe track lt,substant1ally as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. I

To the yoke is fastened one end of a liftingcord E, which is carriedupward and over a sheave \V, journaled in a slot in the upper end of thebar A, and thence depending 15 provided with a handle c The upper end ofthis handle lodges against a shoe D, secured to the lower end of the barA by a bolt or screw N, and the free end of the shoe is slotted orforked at d to admit the cord. In the cord is fixed a button e, or otherlike means, which, when the car and its attachments are raised to theposition indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, engages or lodgesunder the slot in the shoe D and holds the carriage in that position. Tocarry the cord Efree from the bar A, an arm m, formed with a sleeve M totake the cord, is secured to the bar, as shown in Fig. 1.

At the rear of the bar A is arranged and secured a vertically-dependingbar T, which serves as a support for the catch H. This catch 11 isformed at the rear to embrace the bar T, and is secured thereto at anyposition of elevation by a fastening-screw t. From the connection to itssupporting-bar the sides of the catch are curved outward and carriedforward of the track-support, and then the free ends of the sides arebent inward, and thence rather abruptly turned upward, as seen at h, theedges of the curves forming a slot h, in which the stem of the yokemoves when the track is raised or lowered.

V designates the wheels of the carrier of the usual construction,adapted to run on a wire track and provided with the common stirrups 2,to which the basket is secured, as hereinafter specified. On thestirrups is ar-, ranged and secured a flat bar B, the opposite ends ofwhich are bent downward, as shown in Figs. 1., 8, and 5. The ends of theflat bar B are broadened, as seen at B and bent back on itself, as shownat B forming a boxing, in which are hinged or pivoted the hingedlatches. The nose or latch end of this bar is'rounded off transversely,as seen in Fig. 4, to more easily enter the slot in the catch H whenengaging that element. In the ends of the bar B are hinged or pivoted,by means of pintles Z), the latches B B arranged on their supports toswing on a horizontal plane. Between these latches is arranged a springS the force of which is to spread or open the latches. This spring isheld in position at the middleby a hook or eye I), substantially as seenin dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, and to permit thedifferent adj ustments of the spring to suit the varying conditions ofvelocity of the carriage the latches are formed with a series of lugs orcars 12' b 11 On the bar 13, at a proper distance from the latches, is astop-bar B, which, when the latches enter the catch, prevents them fromentering therein farther than requisite. It may be faced with a yieldingsubstance, so as to form a buffer.

C designates the basket, provided with means at both ends, to which thesustaining-cords e are fastened. These cords are carried up and throughperforations in the heads of thumbscrews 0 in the stirrups on the car,and thence brought down and arranged in the slot of lugs d, and thencarried to a button (Z on the bottom of the basket. On the cords e arebuttons 6 which also engage lugs d when the basket is tipped, and serveto hold the basket in that position. WVhen it is desired to gain moreconvenientaccess to the basket, it is moved to an inclined position bydisengaging the button e from the slot and allowing the cord e to runout until the button e lodges in the slot (1', which will hold thebasket in its assumed inclined position.

In Fig. 7 of the drawings I have illustrated a modified construct-ion ofthe latches. In this construction the latches themselves are made ofsome resilient or elastic material, whereby when they are swung inwardand strike their ends together, as indicated in the dotted lines, theywill rebound after their free ends pass clearof the edges of the catch.

The operation as to inclining the basket has already been sufficientlyspecified. That of the carriage may be stated as follows: WVhen thecarriage isat rest at a station and it is necessary to release it fromengagement with the catch and start it forward to the 'other station,the carriage is lifted by means of the lifting-cord until it assumes theposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. l'of the drawings, in whichposition the latches are lifted above and freed from the catch, and thecarriage is free to move by gravity in the direction of the otherstation. On arriving at the other station the force of the carriagedrives the latch end of the barB into the slot of the catch withsufficient force to carry the latches inward, and continue the forwardmovement until the free ends of the latches are beyond the slot andwithin the catch, when they spring outward and beyond the slot, and thushold the carriage. After the carriage reaches its station, the yoke,with the track at the station from which sen t, may be lowered to thenormal position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a cash andbundle carrier, the conibination, with the track and carrier support, ofa depending catch-supporting bar arranged and secured at the rear of thetrackand carrier support, and a catch H, secured to the catch-supporting bar arranged with its latch end to extend beyond the track-support andforming a slot to engage a latch on the carriage, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

2. In a cash and bundle carrier, the combination, with the track-supportand track, of the catch-supporting bar T, the catch H, secured to saidbar and arranged with its catches in advance of the track-support, acarriage 011 the track, provided with a bar 13, secured to the stirrupsof the carriage-wheels, and

spring-latches hinged to the ends of the bar to engage the catch,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a cash and bundle carrier, the combination, with the track-supportand track vertically movable thereon, of 'a catch-supporting bar at therear of the track-support, a latch H, secured to the saidcatch-support,with its catch edges arranged in advance of thetrack-support, a carriage on the track, a bar B, secured below thecarriage and formed with enlarged projecting ends, latches B B hinged tothe enlarged ends of the bar, and a spring S to throw the said latchesopen after they have entered the catch, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

4:. In a cash and bundle carrier, the combination, witl1atrack-supportand a verticallymovable track, of a catch supported at the rear of thetrack-support and extending in advance thereof, a carriage on the track,a bar secured below the carriage and formed with boxin gs B B andstop-pieces latches B B hinged in the boxings and formed with a seriesof lugs b b 19 and a spreading-spring S between said latches,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. In a cash and bundle carrier, the combination, with the carriage, ofa basket C, provided with slotted lugs d and fastening-button d on itsbottom, and the cords e having one end secured to the basket and carriedthrough eyes in the st-irrups of the carriage, and thence through theslotted lugs 61 to the fastening-button (1 substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day ofDecember, 1889.

THOMAS \VILSON, JR.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. MILLs, GEO. WV. GIBBQNS.

